Talk:Peaches (The Presidents of the United States of America song)

Deconstruction?
The whole essay about how the song is Marxist seems a bit much, almost as if it were a satire of overly extrapolative literary deconstruction. I can't tell if it's serious or not, but unless it's likely that the person who wrote the song actually intended to convey a marxist viewpoint, it shouldn't be mentioned in the article. Judging by this source It seems far more probable that the whole song is just sexual innuendo, especially since the only relevant results of a google search seem to be that, the original link and mirrors of it, and Wikipedia itself. --TexasDex 21:21, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Good call. I think that this falls squarely under "No original research". I'd love to include it - interesting readings of singles are always fun - but since it's unpublished, even though from a .edu, I have reverted it. H0n0r 03:07, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

No sexual innuendo
According to the lead singer of the band, there is no sexual innuendo involved. The song is basically about how, when he was younger, he went to a girl's house to tell her how he felt about her, and whenever he found out that she wasn't there, he waited for her underneath a peach tree in her yard. That's what he said on VH1's "Top 100 Songs of the '90s."

I took a little nap where the roots all twist / squished a rotten peach in my fist / and dreamed about you, woman...

That line of lyrics seems to match what the lead singer said.


 * I disagree. The song lyric "Move my finger around inside / Make a little room for a man to hide" is, in my opinion, blatant sexual innuendo. RobertLovesPi (talk) 16:05, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Mention in King of the Hill
Wasn't this song's lyrics sung by Hank Hill in an episdode of King of the Hill?
 * I remember that one. It sounded like he had made up the song. I was quite disappointed (and bewildered) to find out that a song with such generic lyrics as "goin' to the country, gonna eata lotta peaches" really exists. Buck Strickland had just come up to him like "Hank have you tried peaches" (for constipation) and he was like "No but I think I can fake it" and starts strumming and singing this song... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 19:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Music video cleanup
I cleaned up the music video description. Whoever typed that entry originally made it very redundant.

Billboard Position?
The opening paragraph says it reached #6 but in the Chart positions it reads that it reached #8 in the Modern Rock charts.


 * Yeah, it supposed to say '#8'. I changed it.--Gen. Quon (talk) 21:44, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Important dates
The CD maxi-single was released on February 27, 1996. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/index.jsp?pid=138987&aid=285918

I've taken the liberty of adding "debut" dates and "peak" dates to the Chart Positions table. All the proof is right here, at least for the U.S. charts: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/searchResult.jsp?exp=y&Ntt=The+Presidents+Of+The+United+States+Of+America+Peaches&Ntk=Keyword&an=bbcom&nor=10&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&N=37

The single can be sorted by chart on the above website. The specific chart listings are on the left side of the screen. You can also examine the single's weekly positions on each specific chart when you sort by "oldest." The single's debut date appears first that way. The peak date requires some further examination, but can still be found somewhat easily.

Spanish Pipedream (coincidence)
The chorus seems to share a lot with the chorus from "Spanish Pipedream" on John Prine's self titled album. Only a few people have made this connection online, there are no good sources, and it doesn't seem like The Presidents of The United States of America have given any credit to John Prine. Maybe there is a deeper source to eating "a lot" of peaches after having moved to the country Wcichello (talk) 17:45, 1 July 2019 (UTC)